Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer Ifan ab Owen Edwards, at Penmount chapel, Pwllheli, on 16 April 1958. They had two daughters, Elin and Mari. The marriage was dissolved in 1994. She suffered poor health in her last years and died in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor on 30 December 1997. Her funeral took place at Penmount chapel on 6 January 1998, and she was buried in Penrhos cemetery. Donations were received in her memory towards the work of
JONES, WILLIAM BASIL (TICKELL) (1822 - 1897), bishop of spiritual, pastoral, and educational work in the diocese, and effected a considerable reorganization of the diocesan machinery. He was able to speak Welsh, though not fluently, but he had little regard for the separate nationhood of Wales. His scholarship was displayed by such works as The Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd, 1851; The History and Antiquities of S. David's (with E. A. Freeman), 1852
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, , received a copy of the family pedigree from ELISE AP WILLIAM LLOYD, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1565. The ancestry as given by Dwnn (Visitations, ii, 225-6 - see the footnotes by W. W. E. Wynne) is traced through Owain Gwynedd and Llywarch Hen to Coel Godebog. J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 234) gives the descent from Owain Gwynedd down to 1832, and (ibid., 383) shows also the relationship of SIMON
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman of the House of Commons till January 1945, when he resigned his seat and was granted an earldom, taking as his titles Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor and Viscount Gwynedd. He was given the Order of Merit in 1919 and the Légion d'honneur in 1920. He was Constable of Caernarfon castle from 1908; hon. LL.D. (Wales) 1908, hon. Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1910, hon. D.C.L., Oxford, and hon. LL.D. of
(fl. 1268), eulogist '; he is leader of Gwynedd, Powys, and the South. The like had not been seen since the days of the ' Flamebearer' and the battle of Arfderydd; he is like Arthur, and is 'the true king of Wales.' His quarrel is with a 'foreign nation of alien speech.' The word 'Cymro' (Welshman) occurs several times, and is used with great pride. The poet ventures even to urge the new Arthur to annex Cornwall to his
LLYWARCH ap BRAN (fl. c. 1137), founder of one of the 'Fifteen (Noble) Tribes of Gwynedd' is described as brother-in-law of Owain Gwynedd, their wives being daughters of Gronw ab Owain ab Edwin, lord of Tegeingl. Like Hwfa ap Cynddelw, he is said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd and to have lived in the township of Tref Llywarch, Anglesey; he is also described as lord of the commote of Menai, Anglesey. For the names of some of the families who claimed descent from him see Philip
LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet from the death of Owain Gwynedd to the rise of Llywelyn the Great to the height of his power. He addresses Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as ' lord of Aberffraw'; this must have been between 1173 and 1175. Fratricidal strife between the princes was the curse of Wales at that time, and the reference to Cain and Abel in the ode to Rhodri is very much to the point. The solution advocated by Llywarch was
LLYWARCH HEN (fl. 6th century), British prince and a hero of a cycle of Welsh tales dating from the mid-9th century pedigrees of the princes of Gwynedd as contained in the 'Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan.' According to these, Llywarch was descended from Coel Gotebauc, his father was Elidyr Lledanwyn, and his mother was Gwawr, daughter of Brachan. He was, both on the paternal and the maternal side, a cousin of Urien of Rheged who fought against the sons of Ida in the latter half of the 6th century; and the princes of Gwynedd
LLYWELYN ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1282), Prince of Wales challenging the revived power of the English monarchy, a policy which ended with his defeat in the war of 1277 and the collapse of his life's work. The subsequent peace of Aberconway left him with only Gwynedd west of Conway, though he was still accorded the now hollow title of Prince of Wales, with which was associated the overlordship of five small baronies on the outskirts of Snowdonia. At Worcester, on
LLYWELYN ap IORWERTH (fl. 1173-1240), prince Son of Iorwerth Drwyndwn by Margaret, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd. He may have been born at Dolwyddelan, the royal manor of Nantconwy, over which his father had exercised a brief lordship which ended with his death at about the time of Llywelyn's birth. The infant prince, being a potential menace to the power of his father's half-brothers in Gwynedd, probably grew up in Powys under the
LLYWELYN ap SEISYLL (d. 1023), king of Deheubarth and Gwynedd Nothing is known of his father, but his mother, Prawst, was, according to late pedigrees, the daughter of Elisedd, a younger son of Anarawd ap Rhodri Mawr. Since he himself married Angharad, daughter of Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda, he had distant claims to succession in both Deheubarth and Gwynedd, which in the circumstances of the time could be translated into reality by a leader of force and
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet Merioneth. In an elegy to Cedifor he refers to himself as a soldier of Madog ap Maredudd (died 1160), and in addressing Owain Fychan, son of Madog (died 1187), he claims that he was older than that prince. In a poem to Owain Gwynedd he states that he had been with him on Southern soil, but Owain did not fight in South Wales after 1138. According to the ' Red Book ' it was Llywelyn who sang the elegy to

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